Apr 15
Troubled MacBooks
Nothing is perfect, not even Apple's products(fanboys, don't kill me, please!), but there's something we all get to learn, sooner or later. It's easy to make mistakes, it can be pretty hard to straighten things up, but the hardest part is to admit your mistake. As a short side note, I've seen some companies solving various issues lately, with software patches, but without official acknowledgement of the problems. Well, Apple just recognized its Penryn-based notebooks have a problem...
Since the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros started shipping, back in February, a lot of users started to experience flickering and graphics corruption during Web browsing(pictured above) or media playback, and reports on the official Apple forums say that playing video files in QuickTime is often affected by flickering, or "washed out" graphics.
For example, one user was saying that "When I am watching the Video Tutorials for any of Apple products my QT flickers dark and light, not to the point where I can't see the video, but to the point where it is annoying. Anyone else having this problem? This is on a 4 day old new MacBook. I have the most recent version of QT installed."
In an email sent to a customer, Apple formally acknowledged the problems, saying "Apple has received reports similar to the behavior you are describing and we are investigating those reports. Further information will come in the form of a Knowledge Base article, Software Update, or Software Release."
Well, it's good to know they admit there's a problem, and let's hope they'll also manage to fix it as soon as possible. Until then, stay close to us, because we're close to those news that you need to know, so if you are not subscribed yet to our news by email...you know what to do!
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